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for the men, or bread, bacon, butter or lard, tea. Dinner. 

 Onion and potato pudding, with a little piece of salt pork in it, 

 suet dumplings, potatoes, and other vegetables ; rice pudding 

 for children (Sundays, a small piece of beef or mutton ; or bread, 

 bacon or pork, and vegetables, pudding. Tea. Bread and 

 lard, sometimes butter or jam, tea. Supper. If supper is 

 taken, bread and cheese, occasionally herrings or bread, bacon 

 or pork, and vegetables. Notes. The men generally have 

 gardens and allotments, and a good many of them keep pigs. 

 They belong to benefit societies, and a good many belong to 

 clothing and coal clubs. 



KENT. 



Breakfast. Bread, butter, cheese ; a few have porridge or 

 bread and milk ; sometimes tea, bread and butter (on Sundays, 

 bacon and an egg, with bread and butter) ; but before leaving 

 for work in the morning a cup of cocoa is taken and a piece of 

 cake is eaten on the way to work. Dinner. Pork or bacon, 

 hot vegetables, pudding, breed and cheese (on Sundays, butchers' 

 meat is eaten), or bacon, pork, cold meat, and suet pudding 

 (Sunday is the time for hot fresh meat, vegetables, suet pudding, 

 and fruit pie). Tea. Bread and butter, cake, tea ; or bread, 

 butter, cheese, tea ; and Sunday diet may comprise, for tea a 

 slight variety from the weekday fare. Supper. As a rule, few 

 have supper as well as tea ; but, if so, for supper, bread, butter, 

 and cheese, or simply bread and cheese. On Sundays very 

 much the same. Note. About 10 per cent, of the men keep a 

 pig. They all have gardens with their cottages, and about 

 15 per cent, have an allotment as well. They grow sufficient 

 vegetables for their own use, and sometimes have a few to sell. 

 Most of them belong to benefit societies, and a few to clothing 

 clubs. 



LANCASHIRE. 



Breakfast (in the north of this county). Bread and butter, 

 bacon, fruit pie, porridge, tea or coffee, or milk. Dinner. 

 Fried bacon, bacon with potatoes, perhaps cold meat left over 

 from Sundays (but on Sundays, hot beef or mutton, vegetables, 

 rice, or tapioca pudding). Tea. Bread, butter, tea, cheese, 

 fruit pie. Supper. In cases where the father has dinner in the 

 fields, there is generally a hot supper of potato pie or potatoes 

 and bacon, the dinner consisting of the articles mentioned for 

 tea as above. Note. The majority of farm labourers in Lanca- 

 shire keep a pig, and, as a rule, have a small vegetable garden. 

 Some have a small allotment, on which a cow is pastured. Most 

 of the men belong to some benefit society, and clothing clubs 

 are not uncommon. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Bread, butter, bacon, tea. Dinner. Fresh or 

 salt pork or bacon, pudding or tart, vegetables, cheese (Sundays, 

 beef or mutton, pudding). Tea. Toast, bread, butter or jam, 



